Also known as "corporate
subsidies"; the biggest recipient of government "hand-outs"
today are big corporations and the wealthy -- from tax breaks to grants
to gifts.

In the 1980s, Ronald
Reagan promised that such subsidies to the rich would later "trickle
down" to the middle & working classes, as good jobs and better living.
What it's done instead is made the wealthy more wealthy, while cutting
jobs, education, health care, housing & environmental standards, increasing
our credit & debt, making our daily lives & futures less secure.